God's Burden for Zion — George Warnock

God's Burden for Zion and the Righteousness of God

I'm going tonight to a passage from Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 62, about several years ago when it just seemed to be clicking to me as something for this hour. And since the first time we got into it, it just seems every once in a while we keep coming back to it.

And God's burden for his people. For Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that doth blink. And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all things thy glory.

And I shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. I shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal guide in the hand of thy God. Thou shalt no more be turned forsaken, and this shall thy land no more be turned to conflicts.

But thou shalt be called Hezabah, and thy land Beulah. And those names are interpreted in the next two phrases. So the Lord delighteth in thee, Hezabah, and thy land shall be married. That's Beulah. For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee.

And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. We might read a little more later, but we'll just leave it for now. God is exceedingly jealous over his people. And our great high priest in the heavens, he bears upon his shoulders the concern for his people.

I use that phrase because the high priest in the Old Testament, when he went into the holiest of all on the Day of Atonement, he was clothed upon with the holy garments of the priesthood. And on the shoulder pieces of the epit, there were the names of the children of Israel, which he carried in before the presence of God.

So the priest in Israel was established by the Lord to carry, as it were, and to bear the problems, the sins, the iniquity of the children of Israel. As we said this morning, God's plan was that the whole nation would be a kingdom of priests.

The whole nation would have access into God's presence. But they failed God, and God still must have a priesthood. But he separated one of the twelve tribes to be the priestly tribe. And from the priestly tribe, he chose the family of Aaron.

And so Aaron and his four sons became the priests, and Aaron was the high priest, along with his four sons. And so God narrowed it down to just a very small handful. But as we said this morning, God never changes his mind, repents of any plan or purpose that he has.

God's Purposes, Judgment, and Repentance

Maybe I should just digress here a little to explain that, yes, it does say God repented here and there in the Old Testament. It repented the Lord that he made man, repented the Lord concerning the flood.

But we have to understand that in a different light. God's purposes have been accomplished. When God is judged, it grieves his heart that he had to do it. And he sent Jonah up to pronounce judgment on Nineveh, and Jonah proclaimed through the streets of Nineveh, yet forty days, and Nineveh shall perish, and the people repent it, and so will God repent it.

So it's something like that. God doesn't change. He has a certain attitude towards mankind. He's angry at the sins of mankind. He decrees their judgment. He declares they're going to be judged. But when man repents, because God doesn't change, because he's a God of love and mercy and forgiveness, God has to withdraw that judgment.

And the prophets understood that, and Jonah understood it. That's why he didn't want to go to Nineveh. He said, If I go to Nineveh and preach repentance, it sure is anything, they'll repent, and then you won't do what you said, and I just want you to do what you said.

I want you to wipe out those Ninevites, because they were a great threat to Israel. And so Jonah was afraid, Lord, if you're sending me to Nineveh to call them to repent, I just assume you wouldn't send me, because you could go ahead and judge them now the way it is.

If you send me, I think you've got something in mind that I don't like. But he knew that God was that kind of a God. If the people repented, then God would change his mind. And so, nevertheless, God has purposes for his people, and he will not repent.

For God is not a man that he should repent, as Balaam prophesied. Nor the son of man that he should change his mind. He's not that kind of a God. Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Hath he spoken, and shall he not bring it to pass?

He pronounced great blessing upon the nation of Israel, because this is God's people, they're holy in God's sight, God looks down and he doesn't behold any iniquity in Israel. And yet, God knew that in their hearts there were many things that God must deal with.

But he's not going to let the enemy come into choose. If God has something against his people, he will deal with them righteously. But our high priest stands there in the heavens, shielding us from the condemnation that Satan would bring our way.

And Satan sort of operates in a priesthood, too, but it's a priesthood in reverse, and he stands there accusing the saints of God before the throne. And so we have a high priest who rebukes him. Like when Joshua, at the time of the restoration of the second temple, Joshua was the high priest of the new temple.

And Zechariah and Haggai were raised up of the Lord to prophesy words of encouragement to the builders of the temple. And Joshua was the high priest, and Joshua was a priest of God and therefore clothed upon with the turban and the holy garments, the white raiment and the ephod.

He was dressed like a priest, ought to be dressed, and those garments would be pure and clean and white. But God showed Joshua to Zechariah in a vision, and he says, Behold, Joshua stood before the Lord in filthy garments, because that's the way God saw him.

And Satan was standing there, too, accusing Joshua because he knew that Joshua was clothed in filthy garments in the Spirit. And he accused Joshua, and the angel said, The Lord rebuked thee, O Satan. Even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuked thee.

Is not this a brand put out of the fire? The angel admitting, Yes, he deserved to be wiped out, he deserved to be burned, but God plucked him out, and so the Lord rebuked you. And then God was in the process of cleansing this priesthood, because God was behind.

It was God who authorized the rebuilding of the temple. It was God's burden. And these men had responded to the burden of God and had come back to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. So God was for them.

God was with them. He knew their faults and failures. He knew Joshua's faults and failures. He knew all about that, but he plucked them out of the fire. And he said to the angel standing before him, Take away the filthy garments from him, and clothe him with change of raiment.

All this was something Joshua saw, or rather, Zechariah saw in the spirit. I don't know what Joshua might have known about it even, but no doubt he was recognizing his uncleanness and his unworthiness, his inability to function as he ought to function as a high priest in Israel.

And all this was going on in the spiritual realm. Take away the filthy garments. And he took away the filthy garments from him. And then God gave him a promise that he would walk in his ways and that he would obey him, that he would give him places to walk among these that stand by.

And so Zechariah was able to encourage the people of God in manners like this. And there's other visions that he had. And Haggai had visions. The time had come for God to restore the temples, and therefore God was jealous over his people.

He also said to Zechariah, I'm jealous over Zion with great jealousy, because the time had come to turn their captivity. They had been in captivity, and God said it would only be for a season. But their captivity had been turned, and God was jealous over his people.

The Kingdom of Priests and the Melchizedek Priesthood

God's always been jealous over his people for the simple reason that he created us for his glory. And he put his image upon man, like we've been emphasizing. He put his image upon man that that image might be a representation of God himself in the earth.

And so he's concerned about man, and that's why he raises up a priesthood. His desire would be that all God's people would come in as priests before God, and that's something that has happened in this new covenant, where all God's people are constituted as priests before God, kings and priests unto God, with the emphasis on the priesthood.

And don't forget that. This is the day and age when the kingdom message is heard everywhere, and the emphasis is on the kingdom and on the fact that we're kings. And because we're kings, we're supposed to just have all the power and authority in heaven and on earth to take over the governments of the world and just reign as kings.

The emphasis that God gives is not on kings, but on kings who are priests. I will make you to be a kingdom of priests. Priests is the emphasis, but a kingdom of priests because they have authority as priests.

A kingdom of priests. That's the emphasis. And so it was of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's a king, yes, and he's a priest on the throne. And God has ordained him to be a priest after the order of Melchizedek, which Paul goes into very thoroughly.

Melchizedek being first by interpretation king of righteousness, but Melchizedek was king of Salem, which means peace. So he says, this one on the throne is king of righteousness and king of peace. And God said, thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Thou art a priest. He didn't say you're a king after the order of Melchizedek, though he is a king. But he's a king in virtue of the fact that he's a priest. In other words, he has authority with God because he's a priest.

And so, by and large, the kingdom people are missing what God is saying. He wants priests. And to those priests he'll give authority in realms of righteousness and truth. Because the way we're going to overcome is not by going forth as kings with power and authority in the natural, but to go forth as priests wearing garments of the priesthood, which Paul tells us is a helmet of salvation, a breastplate of righteousness like the priest had, a breastplate, the girdle of truth, your loins girt about with truth, your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

That's the armor that God has for us, and it's nothing less than priestly armor. It's the clothing of a priest. And we're going to discover, I believe, as God continues to work in this priesthood and raise up this priesthood in the earth, yes, I know, as children of God, we are born priests.

All Christians are born priests. But it doesn't mean that all Christians are functioning in that priesthood. Some of them aren't even interested in it. And we better read our Bibles and we'll discover that there is more to a priest going into the holy place than just being a son of Aaron.

He had to be sanctified, he had to be set apart, he had to be cleansed, he had to be washed of the labor. He had to be stripped of his old garments. He had to be closed upon with holy garments. God's raising up that kind of a priesthood.

They're going to have power and authority with God in virtue of the fact that they're priests, that they stand in God's presence, that they come into his presence and go out from God's presence with authority as kings to minister to the people that which they heard from God in the holiest of all.

Heavenly Zion and the Gospel as Visible Salvation

Because God has great zeal for his people. That's why God raised up a priesthood, and that's why when Israel failed as a nation to appropriate the priesthood, God still must have a priest in Israel. And so he ordained that Aaron would be the priest.

And he gave them all these rituals and sacrifices that they were to be very diligent to obey because it spoke of a higher priesthood, it spoke of Christ who is the true priest on the throne. And so God says, I cannot hold my peace, I cannot rest, until the righteousness of Zion goes forth as brightness and the salvation of the lamp that burneth.

You can tell going into all the scriptures on it, it's very evident that he's speaking of the heavenly Zion. Paul says, We have come unto Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.

Paul says also that the present Jerusalem and the earth is in bondage with their children, but that we are the sons and daughters of the Jerusalem which is above. She is our mother, who is the mother of us all, that heavenly Jerusalem.

And God is exceedingly zealous for his people that once again the righteousness thereof would go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. We hear much about the gospel, and rightly so, and we thank the Lord for the gospel, but the gospel is more than a message, it's more than a proclamation.

The gospel is the shining force of the light of God. Perhaps multitudes, millions and millions, have heard the gospel in the earth. Many millions have heard it. Have they seen it? God wants the nations to see the salvation of our God.

See it. So this is the day when God is beginning. I know he's already working mightily in other nations. I'm not saying he isn't working here. But those who have been deprived of the gospel, God is a true and just and holy God, and it will never be said of him, when all the facts are known, it will never be said of him that he was unfair in any way.

And so God is faithfully sending forth the gospel to the ends of the earth. But we have yet to see, I believe, the full impact of the gospel of Christ amongst the nations. But it must happen before Jesus comes.

I don't care what kind of calendars you come up with, what kind of calculations you come up with regarding the coming of the Lord. I don't even pay attention to stuff like that, because there are certain things that God is going to do, and there's a certain thing that he's coming for.

He's coming for a glorious church, a church not having spot or wrinkle or blemish or any such thing. But like we said this morning, he can appear any time. He can appear, and we're looking for his appearance.

I'm not saying there's two, three, four different comings. But for the sake of those who weren't here this morning, the Lord Jesus can appear any time. And all through the Old Testament, they were looking for the coming of Christ.

And they had scriptures indicating he would be born in Bethlehem of Judea. But that didn't hinder Moses to say to the children of Israel, The Lord appeared to me, and God told me to sanctify yourselves, because this afternoon the Lord is going to appear in your midst.

He wasn't talking about the incarnation, but nevertheless he was talking about an appearing of the Lord. That was very definite. God's glory coming to his temple. And he did come. He came that day. And Israel was terrified, as it were, and they shouted, and God had come into their midst.

God's Glory, Holiness, and the Cleansing of His Temple

God's going to appear in the midst of his people. He's going to come to his temple. He's going to cleanse and purge and sanctify by the fire of his presence. He's coming. And I know we desire his glory, and I know that many of the young people, I think especially, have a great longing to see the glory of God.

They're going to see it. They're going to see God's glory. But let us not think, God, you're tardy. What are you waiting around about? We want to see your glory. And we want to see it quickly, I know.

And God wants to reveal his glory. He wants to do it quickly. But we have to be ready for that. I really believe that if the glory of God came down, like he came that day when Moses said, The Lord will appear to you today.

If the Lord of glory came down in the midst of his church the way he did then, I believe we'd have some catastrophes. I believe people would be falling dead in the aisles of the church. Ministers would be falling dead in the pulpit.

But I believe that. Nadab and Abihu, just after this incident, we're not told exactly how long after, they decided, well, let's go into the temple and let's offer up some fire to the Lord. And God didn't authorize it.

And they went into the temple with some kind of fire that they'd kindled that God hadn't authorized, and fire came out from the presence of God and consumed them. You say, why would he do that? Because God had very clearly told the children of Israel how they would appear before God.

And they had no place, whatever, there was no place for them to use their own judgment or to use their own opinion as to how they should do it. There was a very clear pattern as to how Aaron was to go in to the presence of God.

It was an awesome thing. And so they did this presumptuously, and fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, because it was just before that that the glory of God had appeared. So he continues to long for his glory to return to his temple.

But as we long for that, let us realize the awesomeness of the Lord of glory coming down and taking up his habitation in the midst of his people. It's an awesome thing. Early days of Pentecost, you read those books, Bartleman, some of them, the awesomeness of God's presence, how the people of God would come in proud and haughty in heart, and they'd fall on the floor just broken before God.

They couldn't stand that awesomeness of his presence. Bartleman used to say that the rafters were low in that old building. There was no room for the giraffes. The rafters were low. And we long for those days, but God requires the preparation in his people for the return of those days.

God provided the food for the lambs, he said, not for the giraffes. And so God wants to appear once again. He wants to appear. The Lord's going to appear in the midst of his people. The Lord whom ye see shall come suddenly to his temple and will refine them as silver is refined.

That they might offer up unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. God wants offerings in righteousness. For the priesthood that God is raising up is a holy priesthood. A holy priesthood. And God is jealous for that.

He's jealous for his people. And so he's working on his people to bring forth that holy character in his priests once again. And God says, I can't rest till it happens. I can't rest. I can't have peace till it happens.

You say, why? Because, like we've been emphasizing, he made you and I for his glory. He made you and I to express his image. He made us, and he wants to conform us to the image of his Son, that once again there will be a people in the earth truly representing God as Jesus did when he was here.

That just as our Lord Jesus in him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, so that the true character and nature of God was revealed in fullness for the first time in the history of mankind when our Lord Jesus came to earth in whom dwelt all the fullness of Godhead.

The fullness of Godhead was revealed there for the first time. Not to say that God did not reveal himself in many ways in the past, but for the first time here is a man in whom dwelt the fullness of the Father.

Nothing lacking in God in the Lord Jesus. Nothing about God was lacking in the Lord Jesus. And yet he lived as a man. It wasn't a case of God himself just clothing himself with flesh. He was truly a man in every sense of the word.

But a man who would be totally dependent upon the Father, who would do nothing of himself, who would be less than the Father while on earth. My Father is greater than I. But in this one who is made weak for our sakes, we might have one with whom we could relate.

If he just came as God Almighty wrapped in flesh and lived as God, how would we relate to him? And that used to bother me a little, believing that he was God in the flesh. Yes, until I realized that though he was God in the flesh, he did not in his fleshly life on earth live out from the realm of his own deity, but he lived out from the realm of obedience unto the Heavenly Father.

And in that way he becomes a true pattern in type for you and I. A pattern, I should say. An example for you and I. He was just God in the flesh. We say, well, he was God, of course, so he could raise the dead and he could walk in water and he could do all these things.

But he did these things as a man. He lived as a man. And so Paul brings that out very clearly in Philippians. He talks about our Lord Jesus Christ who, though being in the form of God, thought it not robbery, a better translation would be thought it not a thing to be grasped after, to be equal with God, but emptied himself and took on himself the form of man.

And being found in fashion as a man, notice the degrees of humility revealed in that scripture. Though he was in the form of God, he did not consider that equality with God was something that he should strive after, to attain to, but rather he made himself of no reputation, literally emptied himself.

That's a big statement. God Almighty emptied himself, become weak, become human. And having emptied himself and having taken on himself the form of man, that was tremendous humility, tremendous humiliation.

But he went further. He wasn't born in Herod's palace, but he was born a commoner. And having become a man, he became a servant. A doulot is a word that you know, it means a bond-slave, not just a servant who works for wages, but one who belongs to another.

God made us to be doulots. Forget the plural of that word, in the Greek. But he made us to be a doulot, a bond-slave. No, we're not called to be bond-slaves, we're called to be sons. But sons who truly want to obey their master voluntarily come to the place where they say, I'm your son, but I want to be your servant.

I want to live as a servant. And so we're called to be sons and we're called to be priests and kings, but we voluntarily, if we truly know the way into liberty, we voluntarily become slaves. Just like that Hebrew servant in the Old Testament who having labored six years as a slave for his master, in the seventh year it was required by the law that he be set free.

And so the day comes for his freedom, his master says, you're a free man. That's according to the law. But in the meantime, he comes to the place where he began to realize that he never had it so good as working for that kind of a master.

And so Moses said, if he realizes that he never had it so good, he wants to stay there, he loves his master, and he has a family, and he wants to be that man's servant, he can do so, but he's got to make a commitment that's once for all.

Take him to the doorpost, drill his ear through with an awl, and that little token of blood will be a sign that he will be that man's slave all the days of his life. He will never again go out free. He chose that.

And so we come to the Lord, and he sets us free, and we rejoice in our freedom. But soon we begin to realize, I'm doing too many things on my own. I'm not really as free as I thought I would be. And so we come to our master and say, I want to be your servant.

I just want to hear your word and none other. And so our ears, too, have to be pierced, which means that from now on we'll only hear his voice and none other. So that's the teaching from that, I believe.

The Church, Spiritual Depth, and Christian Maturity

And so he calls us to be sons, but sons soon recognize that they're not truly free except as they are made free by the Son and devoted to the Son of God. For whom the Son sets free is free indeed, and they're free indeed when they come to the Son and thank him and praise him for setting him free, but says, now I want to hear your voice and yours only.

That man is truly free. And so I know we digressed a little there. But our high priest in the heavens has a great burden for his church because he created the church to be for his praise and honor and glory.

The church is the apple of his eye. The church is that new creation that he brought forth by water and by the blood, by the blood of his cross. The greatest thing that God ever made is the church of Jesus Christ.

I believe the greatest thing he ever will make is the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The greatest thing he has ever done is to bring into being the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so we read Ephesians and how God has called us and chosen us in him before the foundations of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.

That we should be a people who are one with the Lord Jesus. And Paul prayed for the Ephesians that they would have the revelation concerning the purpose that he has in his people. That they might know what was the hope of their calling and what is the richness of the glory of God's inheritance in us.

I know there's a lot can be said about our inheritance, but Paul writing to the Ephesians, who I believe had a greater, what shall I say, a greater understanding, a greater deep within them, a greater depth within them to partake of those depths in God.

There was something deeper there, so God was able to reach in. Jesus was able to minister out from his heart deeper things because there was a greater depth in them than, say, in the Corinthians, to whom Paul could only give the milk of the word.

He said, I can't give you this strong meat because you're not able to receive it because you're yet carnal. For whereas there is among you envy and strife and emulations, are you not carnal and walk as men?

For when one saith, I am of Paul and another, I am of Cephas, another, I am of Apollos, are you not carnal? What kind of a church have we got on our hands today? We've got millions of Christians and they're all divided up saying, I'm Presbyterian and I'm a Catholic Christian and I'm an Episcopalian Christian and I'm Lutheran and I believe in Luther and I'm Presbyterian and I believe in John Knox and we're supposed to be wise and intellectual.

We're supposed to be people that have come to maturity. Paul says if we've got that kind of a thing, we're carnal. We can't receive the deeper things of God's word. We can't receive it. So, Paul didn't give it to them.

He had to give them the milk of the word. I know sometimes it's said, you know, that we have deep teaching and I don't think we've gone very deep yet. Not very deep yet. I hope we're in ankle depth at least.

But let's not stop here. We must go on and on into the river of God until we literally lose our footing. We always want to keep our footing, you know. But God has great things. He's got the river for us.

He's got waters to swim in for his people. We haven't gone very far yet. But God won't rest until he has his people for his glory because God requires glory. Everything he made was to redound to his praise and glory.

Creation, God's Glory, and Human Apostasy

Everything in its original state was intended of the Lord in creation to show forth his glory, his greatness. Man was the crowning work of his creation. But sun and moon and stars, praisings of the psalmist, they were created to glorify God.

Water, coal, frost, praise them. You were created to show forth God's glory. Beasts of the field, cattle in the hills, praise them. You were created to show forth God's glory. So that everything that God made in its original state of innocence was intended of the Lord to show forth certain attributes of the Creator.

That's why Paul was able to say, writing to the Romans, the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power in Godhead.

So that there was a time when man didn't even have a Bible, didn't even have the Old Testament. They didn't need it as much as we need it today, I guess, because sin hadn't taken such a foothold in the human race as it has today, and they had a certain concept of God, and they could look at creation and see aspects of God's nature and character in the things that God made.

Paul said so. He said that mankind is without excuse because in the things that God has made he has shown forth those invisible things of God, even his eternal power in Godhead. He's shown forth in the things that God has made.

But great blindness came upon the human race because of man's sin and in the process of time, and we won't go through that. But apostasy set in, and it started. Apostasy started in refusing to give God his glory and to give him thanks.

That's how it started. Because they did not give glory to God nor give him thanks, apostasy, darkness, settled in and continued to increase in its darkness until we end up there with a humanity that didn't know the difference between good and evil.

They were deprived of that moral ability to know the difference. They called good evil and evil good. They didn't know the difference right where we are today. They called evil good and good evil. And it all started because man in the beginning did not give God glory nor give him thanks.

And so God must arise in judgment in the earth. But because he's long-suffering and patient and kind, he's been withholding his judgments, giving man opportunities to repent. I read something a week or two ago that struck me very forcibly.

God's Coming Judgment and the Revelation of His Glory

Isaiah the prophet, the same prophet. He came out with a prophecy that God was going to do a new thing. Laid out of the blue, as it were. And the prophets often do that. Suddenly the spirit of prophecy comes on them and they declare something that doesn't seem to be really relevant to what they've been saying before that.

And he says, Behold, I do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth, shall ye not know it? And then he goes on to say, Let all the earth rejoice. Because God is doing a new thing. Let all the earth rejoice.

And then he goes on to say what that new thing is. God said, I've been holding my peace for a long time. I've been quiet. I haven't done much. I've been silent. Peter tells us why he was silent. Because God is long-suffering, not willing that men should perish.

Trusting, hoping that they would come to repentance. He says, Doesn't God know? I know he knows, but those are areas there in God we can't just figure out. We know he knows all about it. But Peter says that God has given man time to repent, and therefore in great patience and long-suffering, he hasn't yet come forth in the destruction and the judgments that he's going to bring upon the world.

But he says, I've a long time been quiet. I've been silent. I've held my peace. But he says, I can't hold it any longer. He says, Now I will arise and destroy at once. He says, I'm like a woman in travail.

The time has come. He says, I've just got to do it. And that's pretty awesome, as we consider that this could very well be in our time. That God has said, I've been holding back my wrath and my judgment.

I've been at peace. I haven't said anything, but I can't hold it in any longer. And he likens himself to a woman in travail. The time comes, and you can't stop it. God says, I'm that way. I will arise and destroy at once.

That doesn't sound like a God of love. But God has to do it for the sake of mankind, for the sake of his people. He's God who eradicates the evil in the earth. And he's going to begin at his house. He tells us he must begin at his sanctuary.

God says, I can't rest any longer. I just can't rest until this happens, until the righteousness of Zion goes forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp of death. God's going to send forth a pure, clear light in the world.

He's going to send a light that men will know this is the light of God. It's going to be brightness. ...of the earth will know that there's a lamb ruling and reigning on the throne of glory, and that he's king of all kings and Lord of all lords.

I know that because in the book of Revelation when God's wrath is in the earth, the people of the earth are going to say, the wrath of the lamb has come. They haven't said that yet. And it might take a lot of judgment before they'll say that.

Because science is there to tell you, well, yeah, we knew California was in trouble. We're going to have earthquakes. Yeah, we knew this would happen. And we can explain this scientifically. The time is coming when the people of the earth are going to say, the lamb is angry with us.

They're going to know that Jesus is ruling on the throne of glory because the lamb will have a people in the earth who are shining forth with his glory. And it will be fulfilled. Jesus' prayer will be fulfilled when he says, Father, the glory thou hast given me, I have given them, that they may be one as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

The world's going to know that the lamb was sent of God. Whether they repent or not, we don't know how many will repent because of it. But that's going to happen. They're going to know the lamb has come that he rules on the throne of glory.

So God's jealous for this. God's jealous for that. The word I understand is the same in the Hebrew. Zeal and jealousy are the same word. God is extremely concerned that his name once again be honored in the earth by a people who know him and who walk with him.